Adams Car

Real Dynamics for Vehicle Design and Testing

With Adams Car vertical products, engineering teams can quickly build and test functional virtual prototypes of complete vehicles and vehicle subsystems. Working in the Adams vehicle vertical environment, automotive engineering teams can exercise their vehicle designs under various road conditions, performing the same tests they normally run in a test lab or on a test track, but in a fraction of time.

Analysis of suspension, steering and full-vehicle maneuvers

Easy integration of control systems into vehicle models

Creation or import of component geometry in wireframe or 3D solids

Extensive library of joints and constraints to define part connectivity

Model refinement with part flexibility, automatic control systems, joint friction and slip, hydraulic and pneumatic actuators, and parametric design relationships

Comprehensive and easy to use contact capabilities supporting 2D and 3D contact between any combination of modal flexible bodies and rigid body geometry

Adams Car was instrumental to tune all subsystems at their best before any real prototype was available… Testing several configurations on the virtual prototype required a matter of hours; doing the same on the real prototype would have been impossible”
Dr. Peter Tutzer, Bugatti

Vertical Solutions:

Adams Car

Explore the performance of your design and refine your design before building and testing a physical prototype

Analyze design changes much faster and at a lower cost than physical prototype testing would require

Vary the kinds of analyses faster and more easily

Work in a more secure environment without the fear of losing data from instrument failure or losing testing time because of poor weather conditions

Run analyses and what-if scenarios without the dangers associated with physical testing

Perform a repeatable set of tests on a global basis, ensuring that you work with common data, tests, and, most important, results

Adams Car Ride

Model and simulate the ride quality of ground vehicles

Create Adams Car assemblies of suspensions and full vehicles

Analyze model to understand their performance and behavior

Use modeling elements important for ride quality as in Adams Car models

Analyze the modeling elements independently from other systems using a modeling element test rig

Perform an analysis of vehicle states over the trajectory, searching for path locations that cannot be traveled with the current target speed during the full dynamic simulation

Calculate four additional limits using the parameters specified and theoretical limits of the vehicle

Creates a speed profile that brings the vehicle to both vehicle limits and user-defined ones

Adams Tire

Use with Adams Car, Adams Chassis, Adams Solver, or Adams View for adding tires to your mechanical model in order to simulate maneuvers such as braking, steering, acceleration, free-rolling, or skidding

Model the forces and torques that act on a tire as it moves over roadways or irregular terrain

Calculate the forces and moments that tires exert on a vehicle as a result of interaction between the tires and the road surface